Million-dollar fire

Damage is set at $1 million after a fire ripped through a Woodbridge home early yesterday.
The blaze comes only three days before the owner and his young family were set to move into the Gamble Street home.
The owner is lucky to have a salvageable structure after a walker saw smoke billowing from the windows and reported the blaze, Vaughan Fire and Rescue deputy chief Larry Bentley said.
There is extensive damage to both floors and most of the goods that had been moved in are gone, but the structure is OK, he said.
"It's very sad. The owner had been very excited."
Gilbert Paesano, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 15 years, said his wife saw the fire at 5:30 a.m.
"The minute she got off the phone, the fire trucks pulled up, so someone else must have seen it earlier and called," he said. "We're just lucky it didn't spread to neighbouring homes."
Although it's unclear how much the home is worth, a neighbouring residence of similar size is on the market for $1.3 million.
The cause is not yet known.